travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.